As the mainly elderly Jewish congregation filed out of the synagogue after Shabbat prayers, a group of young Muslims, many of them teenage girls wearing headscarves, formed a symbolic ring outside the building to roaring applause from a crowd.

Death is everywhere in Al Aour. When a video surfaced late Sunday showing Islamic State fighters beheading 21 men in Libya, it seemed no family here was spared. 13 of the victims hailed from this dusty Egyptian town, roughly three hours south of Cairo.

At least one gunman opened fire Saturday on a Copenhagen cafe, killing one man in what authorities called a likely terror attack during a free speech event organized by an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

The terrorist group ISIS has claimed that its last remaining American hostage, a young woman and humanitarian aid worker, was killed in a Jordanian airstrike. The claim, which was also reported by the private intelligence group SITE, remains unconfirmed.

Palestinian human rights defender Abdallah Abu Rahma, chair of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall, was to be sentenced by an Israeli military court on 8 February on charges of "disturbing a soldier" for participating in a protest in 2012.

Israel is the least moral country in the world when it comes to awarding asylum to those who deserve it, UN numbers show. The High Court of Justice must hurry up and close the Holot detention facility.

A nonpartisan grassroots group in Israel has come under fire from conservative Jews -- in both Israel and in the U.S. -- for using American funds and expertise in its efforts to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This shocking cartoon, "The Eternal Jew," was produced by a settlers' group in the West Bank. It says that several Israeli human rights groups are collaborating with Nazis by reporting on Israeli human rights abuses and in doing so, parodies Nazi ...